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I'm sure there are mods for that

Over in Mass Effect now and Shep has taken his team through the quarantine zone and sneaked through the Maintenance area to confront...

Wait- Is that Counsellor Troi from Star Trek?
Go on, say something else....
Yes, it is Counsellor Troi.

Oh, well.

Did you just kill Counsellor Troi?

Meh.
*Just placed ore extractor in uranium cave to get more uranium for energy so I can progress, only to find that the ore extractor needs to be tier 2, not tier 1...*

At least I have puddles.

Charlotte wrote:

Did you just kill Counsellor Troi?

No.

Maybe next time.

Sooo... which of the three weekly endeavours will I be able to do in ESO?
Loot 20 treasure chests?
Hmm, maybe. I know where quite a few of them are but being in the right area when they spawn is always a bit hit and miss.

*30 minutes later*

I got eight in one day!
That's a record for me. I usually feel lucky if I get two

I'll bet there was someone a few steps behind me that was absolutely livid with my fortunate timing.


And when did the Bull Netch stop being a "dangerous foe"?
Killed three of them but didn't register a single score for that particular challenge. I think I'll pass on that one. I don't really want to be trailing to that gully outside Riften to try and kill those five "dangerous" trolls with 20 other players.

I seem to recall this whole thread being started (by Banj) because I was playing the Tribez like I was obsessed... and now I seem to be doing the same with Planet Crafter. It's rather enjoyable just buidling bases and crafting and seeing the world slowly change, though sometimes I wish there was a bit more guidance.

And sometimes I wonder at the science. I currently have a temperature of a few microKelvin... so I guess the planet somehow started at absolute zero, which from what I know should be impossible... And the ice is now melting and forming lakes. Shouldn't that make the temp around 273 Kelvin? Although I guess it does depend on things like atmospheric pressure as well

Another thing is that the first life I added was grass... no microorganisms or anything (though apparently, soon I'll be able to spread moss globally by rocketing bacteria into space ) - anyway, back to the grass: on our planet it's one of the youngest types of plants. It seems an odd choice to start with. Though I am also growing algae, in my puddles.

And I've dismantled my initial base as the puddles are now deep enough for it to be submerged and all the stuff inside had stopped working, so I had to move it. It's kind of difficult to plan your base and choose a location when the environment will change and you haven't got the whole tech tree so you don't even know what you'll need space for.

At least your planets don't have Counsellor Troi and her never-ending immunity shields.

Well, I say "never-ending" but they did in fact start to deplete once I concentrated on all the other baddies instead of just trying to attack her from the start.

Boss battles!

No counsellor Troi, no other life forms. Except grass and algae.

I thought Boss Battles usually worked the other way around, the surrounding thugs just being a distraction. But maybe with Troi being an empath it works differently

My least favourite boss battles usually involve something being completely invincible unless you do "something else" and then, once you work out what that is and do it, then you get a few brief moments when you can do some damage to the big baddie.

This one wasn't as annoying as that but I did waste a few attempts before realising that I probably shouldn't be attacking her.

And I hope your lovely grass is textured better than the stuff I've been trying to scatter around that gnome.